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100 1 # $a Staunton
245 1 0 $a Miscellaneous Notices Relating To China, And Our Commercial Intercourse With That Country, Including A Few Translations From The Chinese Language. By Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart. LL.D. & F.R.S. - Second Edition, Enlarged.
260 # # $a London: $b John Murray, Albémarle-Street: $f Printed By Henry Skelton, West-Street, $a Havant. $c 1822.
300 # # $a p.[i-]ix, [1-2], x, [1-]432, [1-]16, [2] fold. tables; $c 226 mm. (Quarto.)
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - Preface - Preface To The Second Edition - Table Of Contents - [Text, with 2 tables]; [colophon] - Select List Of Books Published By Mr. Murray.
510 0 # $a On G.T. Staunton see his own Memoirs (1856).

Studies of the influence of Chinese arts on those of Europe include D. Jacobson, Chinoiserie (1993); M. Sullivan, The meeting of eastern and western art (2nd.ed., 1989); H.E. Kiewe, Civilisation on loan (1973); H. Honour, Chinoiserie (1961).
520 2 # $a The text is divided into Literary Notices (including translations), 1-16; Commercial Notices, 17-24; Appendix, 1-4 (on Chinese laws and China's relations with Russia, Britain and the United States of America). It includes accounts of the British factory at Canton (Guangzhou) and of Lord Amherst's embassy to Peking in 1816-7.

Sir Thomas Staunton had himself worked for the East India Company at Guangzhou, China, from 1789 to 1817. On his return to Britain he became a Member of Parliament, but also travelled extensively in Europe, and between 1839 and 1859 was the Royal Academy's Secretary for Foreign Correspondence.
561 # # $a The title-page is inscribed in ink, 'From the author To the Royal Academy 1840 GJ Lib'.
563 # # $a 19th-century grey papered boards; rebacked in 20th century, white paper spine-label lettered 'Miscellaneous Notices Relating To China - Staunton'.
600 1 4 $a Staunton
653 # # $a Great Britain - Foreign Relations - Commerce - China - History - 19th century
653 # # $a China - Civilization - Law - History
655 # # $a Chinese literature - History
655 # # $a Translations from Chinese - Translations into English - Essays - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Murray $e publisher
700 1 # $a Skelton $e printer